Children among the victims as Israeli air strikes 'hit school' in Gaza as Palestinian war death toll nears 45,000
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Children are among those who were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a school in a northern Gaza town, as the death tolls from the horrific onslaught in the Gaza Strip reaches 45,000. The airstrike hit the Khalil Aweida school in the town of Beit Hanoun and killed at least 15 people, according to nearby Kamal Adwan Hospital where casualties were taken.
![[The airstrike hit the Khalil Aweida school in the town of Beit Hanoun and killed at least 15 people]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/16/00/93179371-14195933-image-a-2_1734309439528.jpg)
The dead included two parents and their daughter and a father and his son, the hospital said. And in Gaza City, at least 17 people including six women and five children were killed in three airstrikes that hit houses sheltering displaced people, according to Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital.
![[A person carries a casualty following an Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced people, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip December 15, 2024]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/16/00/93179399-14195933-image-a-3_1734309441536.jpg)
'We woke up to the strike. I woke up with the rubble on top of me,' said Yahia al-Yazji. 'I found my wife with her head and skull visible, and my daughter's intestines were gone. My wife was three months pregnant.'. Israel's military said in a statement it struck a 'terrorist cell' in Gaza City and a 'terrorist meeting point' in the Beit Hanoun area.
![[Palestinians check the site of an Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced people, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip December 15, 2024]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/16/00/93179367-14195933-image-a-4_1734309455822.jpg)
Another Israeli airstrike killed a Palestinian journalist working for Al Jazeera, Ahmed al-Lawh, in central Gaza, a hospital and the Qatari-based TV station said. The strike hit a point for Gaza's civil defence agency in the urban Nuseirat refugee camp, Al-Awda Hospital said.
![[Palestinians inspect the site after an Israeli airstrike hit a UNRWA-run school sheltering displaced people, in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip, 15 December 2024]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/16/00/93179435-14195933-image-a-5_1734309635724.jpg)
A person reacts following an Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced people, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip December 15, 2024. The airstrike hit the Khalil Aweida school in the town of Beit Hanoun and killed at least 15 people.
![[Displaced Palestinians shelter at a tent camp, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, December 15, 2024]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/16/00/93179451-14195933-image-a-6_1734309637746.jpg)
